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Coffee Roasting: How baby plant food transforms into delicious coffee flavours

The Science of Coffee by James Harper

Mar 10, 202547:43Science & Medicine

A mother coffee plant gifts its baby everything it needs to grow—a green seed packed with food. But when we roast coffee, we hijack that gift and turn it into something else: flavor. But what is flavor, at a microscopic...

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Coffee Roasting: How baby plant food transforms into delicious coffee flavours is an episode from The Science of Coffee by James Harper. A mother coffee plant gifts its baby everything it needs to grow—a green seed packed with food. But whe...

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Published Mar 10, 2025, 47:43 long, audio available.